The Daily Shaarli
December 14, 2021
Several states have implemented varying restrictions on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Norway and Denmark have fully stopped supplying arms to the Saudi government. Despite Canada claiming to have some of the strongest arms controls in the world, the facts show otherwise.
Chileans go the polls on 19 December in a presidential run-off that threatens to turn the clock back decades, says Chilean author Ariel Dorfman
In a true democracy, government policy generally reflects the will of the people and prioritizes the interests of the most vulnerable citizens. By that standard, the United States is no democracy at all. Indeed, we Canadians should stop describing and thinking of America as a “democracy.” Instead, we should acknowledge the reality of what our neighbour to the south has become.
What's at stake is a courageous man’s life and, if we remain silent, our sense of right and wrong: indeed our very humanity.
Thatcher's destruction of British industry was so damaging that even the CBI has now attacked it. If Boris Johnson really wants a 'levelling-up' economy, only unprecedented state investment can make it happen.
The global concentration of personal wealth is extreme. According to the World Inequality Report, the richest 10% of adults in the world own around 60-80% of wealth, while the poorest half have less than 5%.